out by the monks to dry up the marshy land around the quick-running Fouillebroc stream, was called the "dead pond" - in French "morte mare" - and gave...

Wambourg, and Cherbourg. Bruque- or -broc, from brōc, meaning brook: le Fouillebroc (recorded as Fulebroc in the Domesday book), and Bruquedalle. -crot,...